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Prufrock: Mystery of Mail’s missing biz miss

IT GIVES me no pleasure to report on a quite ghastly row between some of the Square Mile’s biggest guns and Helen Dunne, deputy business editor of the Mail on Sunday.

Mystery has enveloped the newspaper’s west London offices after Dunne, who is extremely popular among her peers, stopped turning up at work.

Just last Wednesday she was her normal bubbly, cheery self in the office, but then, puff, just like the MoS’s business readership, she disappeared.

It is not unusual for MoS staff to have to read The Sunday Times to know what is really going on, and today I can reveal the real reason for Dunne’s no-show: a powerful group of stockbrokers, mainly based around Wood Street in the City, have made serious allegations against her.

Brokers such as Evolution, Numis and Commerzbank have for months been privately grumbling about what Dunne has written about them. But last